Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Threats. Only in Alabama was the usual segregationist tirade heard. There, incoming Governor George C. Wallace, 43, who has pledged to "stand in the schoolhouse door" if necessary to prevent integration, cried: "I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." Wearing two sets of underwear (he insisted they were "Confederate suits," not union suits) beneath his clothes to guard against the Yankee-like cold snap, Wallace threatened a Dixiecrat rebellion. Said he: "We intend to carry our fight for freedom across this nation...
Tony Richardson, 34, is a Yorkshireman who hates things gently. As chief director among the so-called Angry Young Men, he helped Writer John Osborne toss a large red brick through the French doors of conventional English stagecraft, bringing the smell of soot and soft coal into the theater...
...nightmare of Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen a few days later. But Engan still went 292 ft.-16 ft. past the "critical point." or safety limit of the hill. After the first three hills, he had the championship sewed up. "All he needs," said a competitor, "is to toss his shoes over the edge." Yet on the fourth hill at Bischofshofen. he still jumped 320 ft., longest leap of the entire series...
Lazy Little Toss. "The kids are a little bored knocking each other around," said Wisconsin's Coach Milt Bruhn. "They know there's a job to be done, and they're anxious to get to it." At the kickoff, Wisconsin was a three-point favorite. But U.S.C. swiftly made the point spread seem ridiculous...
...same instant. Left End Bedsole took a step backward, thereby making Tackle Butcher a legal pass receiver-for that one play. The notion of a tackle catching a pass never occurred to the befuddled Badgers. All alone in the Wisconsin secondary. Butcher gathered in Beathard's lazy little toss and jumped high with joy -right into the end zone. Score: U.S.C. 7, Wisconsin...